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Sous Chef

Sous ChefMichael Gibney has turned his time in Manhattan restaurant kitchens into a second-person narrative that lets the reader see what it's like to spend 24...Sous ChefMemoirMichael GibneyMichael Gibney has turned his time in Manhattan restaurant kitchens into a second-person narrative that lets the reader see what it's like to spend 24...2014-03-21Ballantine Books

Michael Gibney has turned his time in Manhattan restaurant kitchens into a second-person narrative that lets the reader see what it’s like to spend 24 hours as a professional sous chef. For Top Chef enthusiasts — or anyone looking for a glimpse behind the kitchen doors — Sous Chef is a vibrantly written guide to terminology and process, with plenty of real-time detail and a dash of kitchen gossip. But there aren’t enough anecdotes to sustain the casual reader until the last 30 pages, which give a humorous account of the staff after their shift, throwing themselves ”headlong into the clutches of vice.” B